??CZ 527 .223 any good??

I have several buds running the 527 in 204 Ruger and they all love them. Walnut stocks on 2 of them and another running the Kevlar. All shoot bughole groups at 100 yards and .5 on average at 200. Nice little rifles.

Are you leaning towards heavy or light barrel?
 
I have had great results with mine. I have an older one with 1:12 twist and it shoots very well. I also have one in 204 that is very accurate.
 
Originally Posted By: pyscodogNever seen one that didn't shoot.

Finding a 527 CZ that did not shoot well would be a great deal harder to find than a lie that Hillary had not told.
 
The second most accurate rifle I own is a 527 Kevlar bought in 08. A friend and I both ordered one, and mine has always been the better of the two. The first group it ever fired was with black hills 68 red box, and it was just under .25. We were amazed, and that's what started my infatuation with the cz rifles. Today, I've got a notebook of loads for it, one for every occasion it seems. I've been playing with some 55 varmaggedons this week, and benchmark set off with a BR4 @2.300" has shot multiple bugholes just above book max for hornady 55 vmaxes. It's shown 2 distinct nodes between 24 and 2X grains, the higher one being slightly less accurate than the lower. I believe I'll fiddle with the seating depths tomorrow and try to make it work. I may even post some pics. For what it's worth, the rifle now has upwards of 2,000 rounds (plus half that many with a 6x45 barrel) and isn't quite what it used to be. But.... I bet it can still spit out back to back 3/8" groups with different loads and seating depths. My favorite nighttime rifle for sure.
 
They're one of the most recomended around here.Mine is the American version.The trigger and bolt being a bit coarse feeling are about the only complaints.
 
I have been using a Varmint Kevlar in 223 for several years now, and it is easily my favorite rifle. I prefer the 5rd mags, and dont understand the desire for reduced capacity flush mount mags, but to each their own. The HS stock is amazing, if a little short. I greatly prefer synthetic to wood stocks for a working gun, and cant think of a better one than what CZ chose.

Mine is one of the older 1:12 guns, and it absolutely loves 50gr V-Max. It has been Ackley'd, and shortened to an 18" barrel. It currently wears a 3-9x Leupold Mark AR on a DIP Extended picatinny base.

In a previous life, this gun wasnt treated real well, and has a bad spot in the barrel. About 3/4" 5-shot groups are about as good as it will do, but 1" groups are the norm. I am shoving the 50s at about 3510fps out of that sort tube, and its absolute death on anything within 300yd.
 
Originally Posted By: liliysdadI have been using a Varmint Kevlar in 223 for several years now, and it is easily my favorite rifle. I prefer the 5rd mags, and dont understand the desire for reduced capacity flush mount mags, but to each their own. The HS stock is amazing, if a little short. I greatly prefer synthetic to wood stocks for a working gun, and cant think of a better one than what CZ chose.

Mine is one of the older 1:12 guns, and it absolutely loves 50gr V-Max. It has been Ackley'd, and shortened to an 18" barrel. It currently wears a 3-9x Leupold Mark AR on a DIP Extended picatinny base.

In a previous life, this gun wasnt treated real well, and has a bad spot in the barrel. About 3/4" 5-shot groups are about as good as it will do, but 1" groups are the norm. I am shoving the 50s at about 3510fps out of that sort tube, and its absolute death on anything within 300yd.

And I've never understood anyone that needs more than four rounds to kill a Coyote (or even two).....or would AI a twelve twist and then chop the barrel off...........but then the OP was asking about CZ's...not opinions on what others like wasn't he.....
 
As the reality is that the majority of CZ527s in 223 have five round mags, the discussion is pertinent. He was steered toward a certain model based on that criteria, I simply gave the opposing view...and based on offerings, the more popular.
 
We call and kill lots and lots of multiples on set down here. It takes one bullet to kill 99% of them.

By carefully extrapolating that number, I have come to the conclusion that a 5 round magazine is perfect, as that's the most I have been able to put down in a singe stand. Truth be told, I fired 6 times.
 
I have owned two 527's, both Americans. One in 221 Fireball, which I stupidly traded off, and currently have a 17 Hornet. I will scoop the next 221 I can get my hands on

Great rifles, nice and light to pack. Accuracy is very good

Downsides would be : a bit rough out of the box, ugly scope mounts (I switched mine to either Talley or Warne), and a high bolt lift which will require your scope to be mounted higher than normal. Safety is backwards to most rifles on the market
 
I have one 527 in .204 that is on its second barrel. I had two others that I wore out and didn't rebarrel. My brother is on his second barrel with his .204 Ruger. All of them shoot or shot under one moa with a variety of loads. Once in a while you might find one that needs a bit of wood removed from the barrel channel, or a bit of bedding around the recoil lug, but even the rare one that doen't shoot can be fixed without any problem. FWIW, CZ has posted how to get ideal trigger adjustments on their website. No creep, no overtravel, crisp, light...wow.
 
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I had a walnut varmint, my buddy has the american, both in .223. I like my tikka better, but the 527 has that nice metal and walnut quality going for it.
 
My favorite predator gun is my 527 that wears a 17 rem shilen barrel, m4-2000 suppressor, vx-r 3-9x40, dip base with burris xtr rings, lastly the coyote light on top!!! 3/8" gun all day with 25 berger / 25 4320imr. @ 3,950 fps

This gun was an M-1 in .223 by the way.





 
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I have a few 527s and they are probably my favorite rifles, not much to not like about them, took me a while to get used to the magazine but other than that it's all been great.
 


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